Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Recurrent pneumonia
HP:0006532
What it means
An increased susceptibility to pneumonia as manifested by a history of recurrent episodes of pneumonia.
Recurrent pneumonia is defined as two or more episodes in a single year, or at least three episodes ever, with radiographic clearing of densities between occurrences.
Rare diseases that can present with this45
Very common80–99%
4Common30–79%
17- Absence of the pulmonary artery
- ALG12-CDG
- Alström syndrome
- Autosomal dominant hyper-IgE syndrome due to STAT3 deficiency
- Chronic neurovisceral acid sphingomyelinase deficiency
- Complete atrioventricular septal defect
- Felty syndrome
- Isolated tracheoesophageal fistula
- Keppen-Lubinsky syndrome
- PGM3-CDG
- Pulmonary blastoma
- RIDDLE syndrome
- Roifman syndrome
- Selective IgM deficiency
- T-B-NK- severe combined immunodeficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency
- TK2-related mitochondrial DNA maintenance defect, myopathic form
- WHIM syndrome
Sometimes5–29%
21- Alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase deficiency
- Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 1
- Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
- Basel-Vanagaite-Smirin-Yosef syndrome
- Brain-lung-thyroid syndrome
- Ectodermal dysplasia-skin fragility syndrome
- Hyperlysinemia
- Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia
and 13 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Multiple pulmonary infections · Pneumonia, recurrent · Pneumonia, recurrent episodes · Pulmonary infection · Pulmonary infections · pulmonary infections, recurrent · Recurrent pulmonary infections
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